News Archive

Just days after the announcement that he’ll be leaving Dalhousie in early 2019 to lead the new Quantum Valley Ideas Lab in Waterloo, Dal President Richard Florizone shared his annual year-in-review presentation with the Dal community — offering highlights from the past year from across the university and answering audience questions.

Get to know the inaugural recipients of the new President's Research Excellence Awards, which celebrate both early-career reseachers and substantial research impact.

For the university's 200th anniversary, Dal Management students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends gathered together with shovels and seedlings to plant 200 trees across the Halifax's campuses.

Photo Essay: Highlights from the first Dalhousie Legacy Awards this past Wednesday, celebrating faculty and staff achievement across the university.

Firefighters were on Dal's Agricultural Campus in Truro on Wednesday night combating a blaze at the Cox Institute. No one was injured, but the cause and extent of the damage are still being investigated.

Law grad Malian Levi — this year's recipient of the Donald Marshall Jr. Memorial Award — wasn’t sure if law school was the right place for her. But thanks to the Indigenous Blacks & Mi’kmaq initiative and her own drive and determination, she’s now setting out to improve the experience of Indigenous peoples in the justice system.

Through a partnership between Dal’s Faculty of Agriculture and Correctional Service Canada, women at the Nova Institution in Truro are given the opportunity to get hands-on learning in horticulture.

For the second year in a row, ShiftKey Labs — the Dal-hosted innovation sandbox in the Goldberg Computer Science Building — co-designed and delivered a province-wide bootcamp for budding entrepreneurs: the Creativity and Innovation Bootcamp.

When Lucy Maud Montgomery came to Dalhousie to further her eduction, it solidified her path towards becoming one of the most beloved authors in Canadian history. A new dedication in Dalhousie’s Forrest Building — fictionalized as Redmond College in Montgomery’s novel “Anne of the Island” — pays tribute to one of the university’s most famous alumni.

The inaugural recipient of the Dalhousie President's Award for the Advancement of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion — part of the new Dalhousie Legacy Awards — the Imhotep's Legacy Academy has been helping African Nova Scotian youth discover science and technology for more than 15 years.